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About a month ago, word broke that MegaHouse had finally announced a One Piece Film Z Nami Portrait of Pirates figure! With having been over a year since the release of the last POP Edition Z figure, I was stoked for the Nami Edition-Z figure. And now, after all this time, the One Piece POP Nami BB Edition-Z figure is available for order!

But, uh… unfortunately, this Nami Film Z figure isn’t exactly what I was expecting…

I’ve been slacking on new One Piece figure reviews thus far this year, but with the lull in new releases, I figure now is the perfect time to catch up! I’ve got a pretty hefty backlog of One Piece figures and collectibles waiting to be reviewed from the past six months, so bear with me if some of the items I review in the near-future aren’t quite the newest things to ship.

For whatever reason, MegaHouse has a really hard time capturing the main character of One Piece–Monkey D. Luffy–in plastic form. It seems rather bizarre that the One Piece P.O.P. Luffy figures keep turning out wrong, considering how many MegaHouse has produced at this point, but MegaHouse just hasn’t been able to nail Luffy’s likeness.

As One Piece Z is a site that doesn’t spoil things beyond the current point in the One Piece anime, MegaHouse has put us in quite a pickle with their big announcements from last month’s MegaHobby EXPO 2013 Autumn event. See, while we’ve already discussed three of the six new One Piece POP 2014 figures shown at the event, there are three more that I’m really not sure how to talk about.

Given that this website is named for One Piece Film Z, you might expect that I was reviewing each of the MegaHouse One Piece Z Portrait of Pirates Edition-Z figures immediately as soon as they came out. But it’s actually quite the contrary! I’ve been waiting until a decent portion of the Film Z Strawhats POPs were released before beginning my reviews. And at long last, I’m ready to begin with the first figure in P.O.P. Edition-Z: Tony Tony Chopper! You may already have a million Chopper figures, but this one is like none before it…

I’m a total sucker for all swag from One Piece Film Z, so it goes without saying that I’ve been looking forward to the long-awaited release of the One Piece DXF Manhood: Monkey D. Luffy vs. Zetto figure set. Though this One Piece Z figures set is being released almost a full year after the movie debuted in theaters, I’m still pretty excited about it. And at long last, the One Piece DXF Manhood set is now released and available for ordering!

When MegaHouse officially confirmed that they were going to be producing One Piece Film Z Portrait of Pirates figures, I was absolutely certain that the first or maybe second release would be the P.O.P. Edition-Z Monkey D. Luffy figure. I was wrong. Not a little wrong, but a lot wrong. But no matter!

Plenty of people said it would never happen, but MegaHouse has done the unthinkable–they’ve released five One Piece Portrait of Pirates figures–three of which brand new–in one month’s time! Earlier in the month of September 2013, MegaHouse released One Piece POP Gol D. Roger, Whitebeard Ver. 0 and a reissue of the original Whitebeard. Now we can add onto that a reissue of POP Sailing Again Nico Robin and the all-new, all-awesome One Piece Z POP Sanji Edition Z figure!

It’s probably good that Brook is my favorite character in the One Piece anime and manga for a couple of reasons. Firstly, toy companies don’t seem to make a ton of Brook figures, so I don’t go bankrupt trying to buy them all (and believe me, I buy virtually every new Brook figure that comes out). But the other reason is that it’s good that my favorite character is Brook is that every Brook One Piece figure that does come out is fantastic. Case in point is the subject of today’s review: the Bandai Figuarts Zero One Piece Film Z Brook figure!